Who's asking? : Native science, Western science, and science education / Douglas L. Medin and Megan Bang.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (295 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262319430 (ebook)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Who's asking? Native science, Western science, and science education.DDC classification:
  • 303.48/3 23
LOC classification:
  • E59.S35 M43 2013eb
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Contents:
Introduction: Who's asking? -- Unsettling science -- Maps, models and the unity of science -- Values everywhere within science -- Science reflects who does it -- Culture and issues in cultural research -- Psychological distance and conceptions of nature -- Distance, perspective taking, and ecological relations -- Complicating cultural models : limitations of distance -- The argument so far -- A brief history of Indian education -- Culturally-based science education : navigating multiple epistemologies -- Community-based science education : Menominee focus -- Community-based science education : AIC focus -- Partnership in community : some consequences -- Summary, conclusions, implications.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Who's asking? -- Unsettling science -- Maps, models and the unity of science -- Values everywhere within science -- Science reflects who does it -- Culture and issues in cultural research -- Psychological distance and conceptions of nature -- Distance, perspective taking, and ecological relations -- Complicating cultural models : limitations of distance -- The argument so far -- A brief history of Indian education -- Culturally-based science education : navigating multiple epistemologies -- Community-based science education : Menominee focus -- Community-based science education : AIC focus -- Partnership in community : some consequences -- Summary, conclusions, implications.

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